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[quote=Anonymous]Supposedly it can work for that spirited child/can't focus child because it's so very quiet in the classroom as children individually do their work.  so a child who can't focus wouldn't have noise to distract, wouldn't have the busyness of children moving about, and 'should' be able to be in an environment that would work.

BUT...  it also requires that a child be internally motivated to get directed in an activity.  Not externally, and alot of children who can't focus need lots of external direction.  "mary, it's time to choose your work and find space at a table or on your floor mat with it."  and then after 10 more minutes of wandering about, a teacher would need to redirect and redirect and....

I think you would FOR SURE need to visit the school and the classroom and see what you think would be the positives and the negatives and see what the school's tolerance would be.

I've visited many Montessori's when I was making a study of it (I'm an ECE professional but not Montessori trained) and at one school I noticed it was actually a bit loud in comparision to the others I'd been visiting.  I remember thinking, wow, it's kind of loud in here and it was actually only the regular noise level of a non-Montessori classroom so it wasn't really that loud, just very different from the others I'd visited.

I do like that during their long extended work time the children are quiet and do their work in long periods of time, it's not broken up in 20 or 30 minute chunks like many other preschools do.  But, the quietness is also because the children are working alone and I prefer a more social learning environment that exists in (a good quality, not one that is a zoo!) play-based or "non-Montessori" program.[/quote]

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